OPUS 5.5 LANDED AND THE BENCHMARK ISN'T THE STORY. THE SAME SUBSCRIPTION NOW BUYS 25% MORE WORK, AND…

OPUS 5.5 LANDED AND THE BENCHMARK ISN'T THE STORY. THE SAME SUBSCRIPTION NOW BUYS 25% MORE WORK, AND THE 5-HOUR LIMIT WENT UP 20% TODAY what changed: > fable 5.1 level on most tasks, ~30% faster and ~40% cheaper per task than opus 5 > cache reads 60% cheaper, which is where long agent runs bleed > thinking is always on. medium is the default, effort is a dial you turn per job > pro, max and team got a usage reset sitting in settings -> usage, good until oct 22 > fast mode goes up to 2.5x at $8/$40 when you need the answer now what people shipped with it in the first hours: > a 13,081-tile mosaic drawn and animated in code, no image files > an animation with every frame painted in javascript, one shot in 18 minutes 31 seconds > minecraft running in a browser > a windmill modeled, rigged, textured and animated in blender in 15 minutes > an xbox controller in 334 lines of one-shot svg it's also their first model since they called for pacing the frontier. metr and frontier design…